Technically, he did ‘lead the mission’. So she is not wrong.
But she is grossly overstating the case, and in doing so, will create more blowback for the administration on this talking point.

It as since come out that Obama delayed the mission a number of times. He lead from behind, as usual.

Mystical_Groove_American

No, YOU are wrong along with her. Giving an OK to something someone else is going to do isnt LEADING anything. You simply gave permission. And I seriously doubt he even did THAT!
He was probly informed after the fact. Think about how Dems work….

bobdog

In fact, he took weeks to get up the nerve to approve the mission, as I recall.

The political calculus, which governs almost everything Obama has done, was that he should approve the mission, because it would cost him more votes if word leaked out that he refused to approve it.

That’s what passes for “acting presidential” these days.

Spiny Norman

Technically, FDR was leading the country on D-Day, not leading the mission. Big difference. Senator Shaheen might be able to argue that the President’s policies lead to the mission’s success, but even then it’s a weak argument because he was continuing the Bush war policies.

Tom in CA

Since President Bush had a standing order after 9-11 to kill him, it is not like Obama did anything other than reluctantly say go ahead. Big deal.

We all know that Seal Team 6 desires ALL the credit. That pansy would not even got in the helicopter.

Sickoislam

“We all know that Seal Team 6 desires ALL the credit.”

DESERVES…but we all know what you meant!

derfelcadarn

Think ! The fact that ANY President would have a standing order to kill ANYONE(no state of war) should be a scary subject in the Land of the free. No accusation, no evidence, no facts, no trial, no conviction,no proof. It lowers our honor and legal standards ,are you next. This is NOT a good thing. Using one man’s tresspasses to justify anothers is very shaky ground,you do not want to go there.

chickadeee

I don’t think he “lead” the mission. To give him that much credit is way too p.c. and generous. I think saying he got his skank ass out of the way is a better way of putting it. And in fact I think it was panetta who finally gave the go ahead for the NAVY SEALS TO GET THE JOB DONE.
o-hole sat there watching the live feed like an an 8year old girl.

Midusdew

How many times did the story change, like 24 times…..

In the real world when the story changes 1 it’s not the truth….

NorCalFoothillRich

And in this case, he ‘led’ after coming in off the golf course, probably in a snit that he had to cancel the rest of his game!

Lula

lead???? he didn’t even get his shoes dirty. Are you kidding???

Katherine

Technically, if giving the go-ahead and taking full responsiblity for failure, if it occurs, is leading…..then Obama was nowhere in sight. It was Panetta and to some degree Hillary who finally, over Obama’s indecision and Jarrett’s objections, gave the order and began the sequence of events. It was also upon Panetta and this general that the full blame for any screw ups would have fallen.

Obama DID NOT LEAD, he was dragged along in his usual stupor of indecisivness and incompetency.

Tavsiets

Ahh whhhatt, oh man sometimes with this crowd all you can do is shake your head.

Spiny Norman

Oh look! Another self-important Democrat who doesn’t know what the f*ck she’s talking about. That such morons even hold elective office, let alone in the US Senate, is not a good indication of the intelligence of the typical American voter.

Good grief.

http://www.thebelltower.org/ Alexxthegreat

FOOL… OH NO HE DIDN’T….HE DID NOT KILL OSAMA binLaden…SEALTEAM6 did that all by themselves.
Besides…if George Bush was not allowed to use 9/11 as a campaign tool…how is it fair for this YUTZ to do the same.

In any event…WE are stupids….THEY ARE KEEPING THE FOCUS ON THIS JUST IN ORDER TO TALK ABOUT IT….THEY HAVE NOTHING ELSE…NO ISSUES…NO JOBS…NO ECONOMY TO SPEAK OF….JUST THIS….AND WE FALL FOR IT EVERY TIME THEY USE IT.

Libs are like rats…when the light of truth shines on them they scurry back to their holes…

scrubjay

“the commander in chief who finally led the mission”

like nobody else wanted to do it.

Spiny Norman

But only after Valerie Jarrett told him he could. And only if Barry could “lead” from the golf course…

Mystical_Groove_American

Ok, lets say for one second they are correct. (They arent, but lets go with it.)
So having just ONE thing youve done right in 4 years a reason to re-elect you????

Hell no. If anyone failed in their jobs as much as Obama has failed in his, theyd not only be fired but probly have lawsuits on them and be in jail.

http://www.thebelltower.org/ Alexxthegreat

But if Geroge Bush was not allowed to use the events of 9/11 in his campaign, why then is Obama allowed to use it???

Libs are nothing but a big brown stain…..

Spiny Norman

“So having just ONE thing youve done right in 4 years a reason to re-elect you????”
______

They think enough voters are stupid enough to do just that.

Mystical_Groove_American

Sadly, how many are?

Spiny Norman

That’s what’s scary. I’d wager at least 1/3 of those going to the polls in November would buy that crap sandwich.

savage24

As I recall, they had to go get him off the golf course or he would have miss the show. This clown couldn’t command two girl scouts at a fire side camp site. And these liberals have got to lighten up, the BS is chin deep.

http://www.thebelltower.org/ Alexxthegreat

Friends…..this is going to come back and bite him on his ass.
I hope it takes a big bite, though and then we cream the shit out of him in November.
Loser asshat….COWARD is the correct term to use for this peice of garbage.

sicoit

Pfffftttt, stupid lib. Watch this You Tube called Dishonorable Disclosures

Yeah, I remember that foto. Looks like they told him to sit in a corner, don’t touch anything, and don’t say anything. Then they took him back to the golf course.

sicoit

The little chair….heh….kinda like riding the “short bus”? Not the real “short buses, mind you. God Bless and keep those that do. This would be the O express short bus I refer to.

oldguy56

Jeanne you are a kool-aid drinking F*cking idiot. Your head is so far up Odumdass’s ass all we can see is the bottom of your feet.

refugee_from_Durham

And valiantly gave the SEALS the green light to shoot the Somali pirates. Big o’s killed a boatload of people by remote control. Too bad he can’t look at a rifle and tell you which end the round comes out of.

Isn’t it funny that Obama absolutely refuses to recognize individual excellence in anyone but himself? But then to do it in such a way as to diminish the parts of everyone who worked on the plan for 10 years (before Obama was ever president), and who personally risked life and limb to carry it out?

Wooooo!!!!!

Yeah, Obama finally stood up to Valerie Jarrett the fourth time, after she advised him three times previously not to risk the political fall-out over possible mission failure:

“The White House called a report that President Obama called off the raid on Osama bin Laden three times a “fabrication.”

In a new book previewed by the Daily Caller, author Richard Miniter alleges that Obama called off the raid three times at the urging of senior advisor Valerie Jarrett, before finally authorizing the mission.

“Ms. Jarrett, like the vast majority of the president’s senior staff was not read in on the operation on the mission against Osama bin Laden,” Earnest said.

And as the liberal group Media Matters notes, Miniter’s report does not square with other reporting on the timeline of the mission. Miniter alleges that Obama called off the operation first in January, but the New Yorker’s Nicholas Schmidle reported that the plan to kill bin Laden was not even presented to the president until March.

UPDATE on 8/1: Miniter responds, saying he stands by his sources: “The White House is objecting to a claim that no one is making. “Read in” is intel-speak for being briefed on sensitive technical details, such as flight paths and radio frequencies. My sources do not speak to the issue of whether Jarrett had access to that kind of sensitive intelligence regarding the bin Laden operation. But Jarrett met with the president repeatedly throughout the planning process (and indeed, more often than CIA director Leon Panetta) and participants told me that the three halts to the mission were called at her behest. Those are the facts. If they are in doubt, Ms. Jarrett should appear under oath before Congress.”

TheUlsterManReport (.com) had put out several interesting reports about this and many more insidious ongoing within the White House.

pre-Boomer Marine brat

… leaping down from the helicopter, .50 in hand, belt of ammo around his neck … mindless of the burns to his hand upon the barrel as he blasts away at the rabid hordes of Mongol cavalry riding round and round the … uh … CUT CUT … fer cryin’ out loud, WHO wrote this SCREENPLAY?!?

chickadeee

And once the mission was complete it was disgusting the way o-hole hung our flexing his own puny muscles like he had scaled the wall himself and fired the kill shot.

Timmer

George Bush ran the football down to the goal line.
Odumbass accidentally fell forward to score the touchdown.

DemoCraps would have you believe that Odumbass hiked the ball to himself, threw the ball to himself, and then evaded 11 tacklers and ran into the endzone untouched.
That is how DemoCraps see the world.

texdrought

Dims: open mouth–begin lying… One can only hope they intend to use their stockpiled hollow points on each other.

http://www.facebook.com/people/John-Patti/1293008607 John Patti

I can think of a half dozen people more deserving of the credit: first & foremost Seal Team Six who risked their lives, General Petraeus who led the Afghanistan mission, Defense Secretary Gates who was
in charge at the time, George W. Bush who’s plan was followed to completion, American taxpayers who fund the military, Valerie Jarrett who reluctantly gave BHO permission.

Horsesoldier

Ah yes, led from the golf course maybe……..

political_proxy

he was finally allowed to authorize the mission after several attempts blocked by America hater Jarrett – who is NOT the POTUS.

At the urging of senior advisor Valerie Jarrett, President Barack Obama canceled the operation to kill Osama bin Laden on three separate occasions

So Barry asked permission from Jarrett to tell Panetta to have our military kill an enemy and he watched it on tv.

And Barry’s post killing bragging got a Seal Team murdered and our undercover spy system and allies destroyed. (Dishonorable Disclosures)

So he basically endangered more American lives and got more Americans killed with his orders ,bragging ,leaks and ROE than the 1 semi retired terrorist leader, who had 50 replacements waiting in the background, that was killed.

What freakin bullshit!….I hope seal 6 “swiftboats” his ass…I saw the vid about what the REAL operatives think about this glory-grabbing, life-endangering leech that obama is, and they have the potential….

aquaviva

Memo: 18 Aug, 2012
TO: Navy Seal Special Ops
From: Preezy Sleazy

“You Didn’t Lead That!”

Re Re

If her comments were so tragic, they would be laughable. No matter what, she is a jackass,like her Dear Leader, the Imperial President.

$27789750

Shaheen, locally known as an empty pant suit, is a Dem rubber stamp whose hubby knew he couldn’t get elected so sent her in to pinch hit as governor and then Senate. She keeps a seat warm.

antipinko

She’s right in that Obama is Commader in Chief. But “led the mission” is a stretch.

Regardless of any of the technicalities of military protocol, it was a stupid thing to say as it will be thrown in her face and the administration’s face as an over-reach.

His big glory seeking mouth also led to the capture of the Pakistani doctor who is now being tortured to death for helping us.

Lula

Tell this Bimbo, he inheirited the ability to get Bin Laden, just like he’s been saying he inheirited everything else.The Seals did the Job, he’s just getting credit.

RightieUntilDeath

BULL$HIT! These people have no idea how low they sink.

Katherine

He led from the golf course? Was Osama on the back nine when Barry surprised him?

Katherine

The fact is that Barry didn’t LEAD anything. Leading requires that you act decisively and be willing to take the blame should anything go wrong.

These are two things that Barry is incapable of doing!

Initially, Barry let the troll Jarrett make the call (several times) and refused to do anything about Bin Laden. Later, under tremendous pressure and a reminder of how it would look (politically) if it got out that he had the chance and did nothing, he passed both the responsiblity for the decision and the blame on to Leon Panetta and a general.

Barry didn’t lead, he simply voted ‘present’.

http://twitter.com/firedup99 Charlotte Jones

Shaheen, Shaheen?? Shahid?? Another Muzztard politician??

Dirk Voorhees

This woman is an idiot shill for the President. Obama had to be pushed into action, this is one of the few positive things to happen under his administration. Apparently Hillary loaned him, her pair of balls for a day, just a day.